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Technology & AIAug 14, 2026

Approximate Muon with low-rank adapters

The Muon optimizer shows clear benefits versus alternatives when pretraining neural networks.

The Muon optimizer shows clear benefits versus alternatives when pretraining neural networks. However, it is used less frequently for parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). One potential reason is that the most common PEFT method, LoRA, does not naturally combine with Muon…

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